Apartheid lives
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1096271,00.html
We are in grave danger of losing sight of what Israel was supposed to
be
Ruaridh Nicoll
Sunday November 30, 2003
The Observer
Yad Vashem was almost empty last week, its pictures of the maimed,
mutilated and murdered viewed by only a very few. Like the rest of
Israel, the Holocaust museum suffers from a dearth of tourists, its
visitors frightened away by Palestinian suicide bombers. Only a
contingent of newly conscripted soldiers from the Israel Defence Force
passed through the halls, assault rifles hanging from their shoulders.
The week before, a delegation from the Palestinian Legislative Council
had visited Edinburgh to have a look at our new Parliament. There,
they had watched Jack McConnell duck questions on ID cards, a civil
infringement they believed we should avoid, one delegate referring to
them as 'Nazi'.
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